four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has workcd out thc way it was supposed to. the sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the situation room, and now the new york times columnist who won a pulitzer prize in 1999 for saucy and incisive commentary about the dangerous liaisons of bill, monica, hillary and ken starr digs into the y and x files, exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in america. .
in a new book filled with chapters that surprise and amuse, dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing and gargling to paxiling and googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backward in many ways; why men may be biologically unsuited to hold higher office, given their diva fits and catfights, teary confessions and fashion obsessions; why women are fixated on their looks more than ever, freezing their faces and emotions in an orgy of plasticity that makes the stepford wives look authentic; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from martha to hillary, can have a successful second act only after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of having it all is less about empowerment and equality than about flirting and getting rescued, downshifting from "you go, gift!" to "you go lie down, girl." ...
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